From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] CUSE: implement CUSE - Character device in Userspace
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:29:31 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4927B4DB.1020802@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081121211756.a211d3a8.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:05:40 +0900 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>> Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>>> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Tejun Heo wrote:
>>>> diff --git a/include/linux/miscdevice.h b/include/linux/miscdevice.h
>>>> index 0be9245..d4dcca8 100644
>>>> --- a/include/linux/miscdevice.h
>>>> +++ b/include/linux/miscdevice.h
>>>> @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
>>>> #define MPT_MINOR 220
>>>> #define HPET_MINOR 228
>>>> #define FUSE_MINOR 229
>>>> +#define CUSE_MINOR 230
>>> This doesn't work: device numbers have to be allocated by LANANA.
>> My last attempt at LANANA for extended devt didn't get me anywhere and
>> I'm not sure LANANA is handling miscdevice minors at all.
>
> No, I don't believe that miscdev minors are handled by lanana.
>
> otoh, we've added only one new miscdev minor since 2005. All the new
> code is using dynamic allocation. Readers of your changelog and code
> comments will be wondering why you didn't do so ;)
Heh.. I suppose I was too attached to the module alias thing. I'll
switch back to dynamic minor.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-22 7:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-20 14:22 [PATCHSET] CUSE: implement CUSE, take #2 Tejun Heo
2008-11-20 14:22 ` [PATCH 1/5] FUSE: add fuse_ prefix to several functions Tejun Heo
2008-11-20 14:23 ` [PATCH 2/5] FUSE: export symbols to be used by CUSE Tejun Heo
2008-11-22 8:05 ` [PATCH 2/5 UPDATED] " Tejun Heo
2008-11-20 14:23 ` [PATCH 3/5] FUSE: separate out fuse_conn_init() from new_conn() Tejun Heo
2008-11-20 14:23 ` [PATCH 4/5] FUSE: add fuse_conn->release() Tejun Heo
2008-11-20 14:23 ` [PATCH 5/5] CUSE: implement CUSE - Character device in Userspace Tejun Heo
2008-11-21 18:55 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-11-22 5:05 ` Tejun Heo
2008-11-22 5:17 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-22 7:29 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2008-11-22 8:40 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-11-22 8:48 ` Tejun Heo
2008-11-22 5:16 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-22 8:02 ` Tejun Heo
2008-11-22 8:07 ` [PATCH 5/5 UPDATED] " Tejun Heo
2008-11-26 10:02 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-11-26 10:17 ` Tejun Heo
2008-11-26 11:34 ` Miklos Szeredi
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-08-28 18:18 [PATCHSET] CUSE: implement CUSE Tejun Heo
2008-08-28 18:19 ` [PATCH 5/5] CUSE: implement CUSE - Character device in Userspace Tejun Heo
2008-08-28 20:07 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-28 22:15 ` Greg KH
2008-08-28 22:32 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-29 2:09 ` Tejun Heo
2008-08-29 2:20 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-29 15:27 ` Nick Bowler
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